Halloween Event now on Test!

Glad to hear it. That way, we don't have to clear out Tips that may drop from Tricks as we're trying to get the Treat.

1) I had three regular tips and the Halloween tip at the same time.

2) I also saw a huge hit to FPS in the room mentioned by Goliath Bird Eater (who I still think of as Smashmouth). Went from 50 FPS to 10 FPS.

3) Upon completing the Halloween Tip Mission I received 3 Vanguard Merits, I do have the Vanguard Day Job.

Better rewards would make it (The Deadly Apocalypse) more popular whenever it pops up. Heck a random piece of halloween salvage would keep people doing it all year around, or perhaps a longer duration on the temp power buff you get.

I'm going to chime in in favor of altering the Deadly Apocalypse.

Subjective Feedback:

As someone who -enjoys- the Apocalypse, I often don't participate because it's a major hassle to succeed at the event. A single team of 8 is insufficient to complete it and finding enough people to buff up your numbers is often implausible, especially given the hard locked timer.

My suggestion would be to eliminate the "someone must be at every banner" mechanic. While clever, it requires people at four widely spaced areas and often splits the smaller groups that could handle one banner efficiently into piecemeal groups that can't handle the spawns. Especially the Abomination banner.

This would theoretically allow a team of 8 to solo the event, but 8-10 is the average size of a maxed out zombie group in my experience, 12 or so for Rikti. The DA event currently requires about 12 minimum to manage, 16 or more to make it tractable and resistant to attrition from team member loss.

Making the mechanics easier may lessen the challenge, but this is an event, not a trial. It shouldn't -have- to be this hard to manage.

Also, I'd also suggest buffing the Mystic Aspect. Whenever he spawns, it's often a race to get to him in time before the mob flattens him, preventing you from getting the badge if you don't track him quickly enough. Frustrating when you managed to complete an already tricky event to have to wait till the next one that may or may not succeed.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville You're right: this whole issue is a money grab. We're going to be grabbing money from impatient people with money to burn and completionist complexes, and using it to make a better game for everyone, including the 99.9% of the rest of the playerbase that isn't going to be buying everything, multiple times, immediately upon release, and spending hundreds of dollars in the process.

After finishing the special Holloween tip mission I exited the mission. I opened up the tip tab to see it with green text, as a normal completed mission would have. When I clicked on it to clear it it insteed offered me the mission again. As it offered me the mission again it cleared the tip from my invintory.

Im pretty sure you are not ment to get the tip offered again after finishing it. Also after clearing it I closed the window for the tip. I have yet to have another holloween tip drop and I have been looking for a while. Either the drop rate is way too low or what I did somehow made it that I can no longer recive the event tips.

Halloween tips sld be fun I was just gonna skip the events this year but looks like I will do at least 2 days worth

Sorta Subjective Feedback: I just finished the Tutorial in Praetoria. I logged in to Nova Praetoria to find a zombie attack. Zombies are darn tough when you're level 2! Anyway I got killed right in front of Miss Liberty/Praetor Duncan.

There are no guards in Praetoria to defend against bad guys around the trainers.

While I understand you may not wish to add any guards for various reasons, I just thought I'd point that out. It might be interesting to warp in some help for the duration of the zombie attack. For example, if Mother Mayhem and the Manticore analog were standing next to Praetor Duncan zapping zombies, it would make a lot more sense for her to continue to just stand there. I realize that would be rather more work for you, but I thought I'd make the suggestion.

Just ran the tip mission and like everyone said it doesnt give a reward. I also noticed that once you get mission complete the clockwork come to ambush you in a few waves. Maybe they should be ambushing you each time you finish futzing around with a glowie?

After about an hour ToTing in PI (50/Controller, remains hero) I got the pumpkin tip. Based on what others have commented here I clicked the glowies and got the "Bonus Time" message with related timer change, stealthed through the rest, beat down the Book Worm, and got "Mission Completed." No rewards table (as reported by others), and the Clocks appeared with minutes remaining on the timer (as reported by others).

On exit I saw "Return to contact" so I clicked the Pumpkin tip again, got the message about accepting the responsibility to get the book, and then it went away (again, as reported by others).

I didn't fight my way through the entire mission because (a) soling a min/kin can be slow going, and (b) going in knowing the mission's broken takes away some of the incentive. I liked the look of it, though, so kudos to the art and mission design team. I'm a bit perplexed by the use of Clockworks as the timer assault, though. Why them, and why did the Circle leave those bits of Praetorian tech hanging around their portion of the underground, anyway? To my mind it would make more sense to have a wave or four of Praetorian cops sweep through the tunnels following the same path as the player, having just discovered this intrusion. Let them fight any CoT that were left behind, too, with dialog like "What the Cole are these things?!"

There's my take, anyway.